A city of Statesboro department head, Planning and Development Director Mandi L. Cody, is one of three finalists for the job of Metter city manager. Cody, who was an attorney at the beginning of her career and later served as Register’s first town administrator, came to work at Statesboro City Hall in August 2009 as a city planner and was named director of the Department of Planning and Development in January 2011. The other finalists for the Metter city manager post are D. Mack Seckinger, currently Metter’s police chief, and Beau J. Gunn, until recently county administrator in Emanuel County.